Dear Bob, here are some photos of my life here on the campus of Concordia Seminary. I love kids, working with the grounds crew, swimming, playing with my dog friends, and especially my own family people.

Twitter Updates

August 19, 2014

It's hard to distinguish

Another night of protests and violence in Ferguson. Reporters were arrested along with some of those throwing molotov cocktails and shooting. In fact there are so many media in Ferguson that Twitter was filled with people commenting their numbers last night.

When asked by a reporter why media were being arrested, Captain Ron Johnson answered: "arrests of media has been because it's hard to distinguish who is media and who isn't in the midst of chaos."

Much reporting is being done via Twitter which means those reporting are not in front of a camera or behind a microphone, but merely holding an iPhone. This certainly does't indentify media since everyone out there has a phone. Almost all of St. Louis local news people have been using twitter continuously as have the national types. This method of reporting enables news to be sent out as soon as it happens.

Comments

It's too bad there isn't some real journalist reporting on this situation. By real journalist, I mean ones willing to do some real leg work, rather than twitter and constant rehashing of the same video feed for hours on end.